The argument from natural evil

e choices is completely false. It is impossible to find a strain of causality between human actions and all natural evils. For example how could the damage done by a meteor shower be the result of human's wrong choices?
             To try and avoid the type of objection I have mentioned above some theists have taken the standpoint that natural evils are the result of human actions because God links man's moral goodness to the ultimate well being of the world. Thus human sin has implications far beyond that of a mortal level, and is the cause of all natural evils. (Basinger, 1995) Though this view does avoid the problems of causality it does not, however, explain instances of natural evil that stretch beyond the existence of man. For example, if all evil is the result of human morality, how could evil have existed before man existed? Instances of animal suffering or natural disasters in pre-man times would remain completely unexplained on this view.
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